Mainstream SSD prices plummeted nearly 50% in the past year
While traditional hard drive pricing remains inflated after last year's Thai floods, the cost of SSDs continues to drop. The Tech Report took a look at the average cost of a number of popular solid state drives over the past year and charted the falling prices over a series of graphs. The site found that the price for drives from OCZ, Corsair, and Crucial have fallen dramatically over the past year, with the larger 240GB / 256GB models dropping by over 50 percent in most cases. Samsung's 830 Series SSDs started at a lower cost than the others, but have settled into a similar price range today. The only buck to the trend is the Intel 320 Series, which uses a proprietary Intel controller and hasn't fluctuated much since its release. The... Continue reading…
Mainstream SSD prices plummeted nearly 50% in the past year
Finally dipping below the heralded $1 per GB mark, it appears overall SSD prices have been on a precipitous decline over the past year. This observation comes from The Tech Report who analyzed ...
Fri 22 Jun 12 from Techspot
SSD prices plummeted by 48 percent over the past year
While traditional hard drive pricing remains inflated after last year's Thai floods, the cost of SSDs continues to drop. The Tech Report took a look at the average cost ...
Fri 22 Jun 12 from The Verge
Why SSDs cost half of what they did in 2011
Fierce competition and lack of differentiation bring prices to new lows.
Thu 21 Jun 12 from Arstechnica
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